Fracture clinic access in Cavan-Monaghan
Deputy Niamh Smyth says children in Cavan-Monaghan face long waits and reduced slots for fracture clinic appointments in Drogheda. The Taoiseach says there is no promised legislation but he will ask the Health Minister to speak to her directly.
The health section on page 53 of the programme for Government gives a commitment to "increase access to safe, timely care, as close to patients’ homes as possible". Within our constituency of Cavan-Monaghan, children who break a limb have to wait two whole weeks to get an appointment at the fracture clinic in Drogheda hospital. This medical care is neither timely nor close to a patient's home. I have also been informed that patients attending Cavan General Hospital have had their fracture clinic slots in Drogheda reduced to five slots every two weeks. Will the Taoiseach give a commitment to the children of Cavan-Monaghan who break limbs - which happens quite often with children - that they will be seen more often than that?
Comment on this
It is in the programme for Government.